Economist Art Laffer explained on Fox Business Monday that tariffs do not drive inflation and said that the economic impact ...

Even if oil prices aren't the reason, immigration policy and tariffs create concerns about inflation aside stagnant economic ...

On Monday, the US Dollar Index ended the first half of the year 10.8% lower. That's its worst first-half performance since 1973, when Richard Nixon was president. At the time, the index fell 14.8%. On ...

Nixon, the 37th president from 1969 to 1974, presided over an inflation rate that rose from 6.2% to 12.3% by the end of his term. In contrast, the latest economic data shows the current inflation ...

President Nixon tried to quell inflation by dropping the gold standard, freezing prices, and raising tariffs. The effort ultimately backfired. Is President Trump’s trade war going to be his ...

The political and financial risks of the 1970s are back in the White House, Edward Price writes in a guest commentary.

The average year-over-year inflation rate under President Richard Nixon was 6.01%. Inflation rose higher by the end of the ...

Marina Whitman was thrilled when President Richard Nixon announced her appointment in January 1972 as one of three members of ...

Richard Nixon’s short-term meddling with the Fed chair harmed the U.S. economy for years. Donald Trump’s threats show dangerous parallels and potential risks.

When Trump won the election last November, inflation had fallen from a peak of 9% in 2022 to 2.7%, and it looked like the Federal Reserve's monetary tightening from 2022 to 2024 had worked.

Nixon also imposed import tariffs as well as wage and price controls. What followed was an uneasy period for the economy, exacerbated by an oil embargo by producing nations and rampant inflation.

Trump joins Richard Nixon in dangerously pressuring the Federal Reserve to engage in self-serving monetary policy. The Federal Reserve system was officially established in December 1913 during the ...